Many await the gathering of Israel.
Mormons state the gathering as one of their core goals. I think this ties right into principles of eternal family.
What is the impulse to gather? Why is it so important? Where to start?
Connection and symbiosis seems to be the goal, the harmonizing of the universe after a traumatic entropic event. That is at a cosmic scale. While cosmic events seem outside of our power, as particles of the whole I think we are meant to exert our small power toward the cosmic harmony.
A simple human is not going to reorder the vast matter and energy of space… Nor is it likely that a single person can gather all the tribes of Israel in a single lifetime. I think the root of the goal, or maybe a seed is a better metaphor, the impulse to gather and connect is the more important focus.
Just as I would point out with beliefs to do with eternal family, I would point out about gathering Israel; (the two beliefs and aims are the same) I would point out that one need not worry about maintaining the family unit through eternity if one has not learned to unite the nuclear family in this immediate life; one need not worry about gathering the sons of Israel if you do not even gather your own sons, brothers and sisters.
Israel was scattered… and thousands of years later, we are mourning the disconnection. How much then we should mourn the dissolution of our nuclear families and communities of friends and neighbors.
We long for harmony and connection, but scatter for jobs and education. I am reminded of Jesus asking, “What profit it a man to gain the world if he loses his soul?”
Is our soul really only the ghost inhabiting a single body? Or is not your soul a culmination of relationships with people and environment?
So many are sad. So many are lonely – Why? For money?
We are disconnected, disharmonious, frenetic electrons out of order, shooting through life erratically. The whims of propaganda, marketing, and who knows what forces of dissolution assail us. We have not the strength of family values made strong by proximity, nor tribal traditions that hold us steady.
How do we confront seemingly cosmic forces?
Our harmonizing must start at the source of our power – our self.
We first begin finding peace and harmony internally – then build your connections stronger with family, loved ones. Unite literally and geographically – be at one with others as a single soul. It should not be scattered. Your labors and goals should be united, synergized by proximity.
Israel and its tribes are a metaphor for families split first by inner contention, and later by outside enemies. The healing then must begin with the inner, then move to the outer.
“Know ye not that ye must cleanse the inner vessel and then the outer?”
The goal is not money; it is a life of connection.
Splitting apart a family for money by choice is little different than splitting apart for sake of war. It is a traumatic even, but maybe more insidious because we trick ourselves into believing it is right.
Our generations spread farther and farther apart; grandchildren not knowing grandparents; nephews not knowing uncles, nor nieces their aunts.
We go into business alone, disconnected, not for the family but for ourselves.
Tyrants used to divide nations to conquer them – now they have wizened and they divide the family.
This is a great source of power, the family, then the tribe, then the nation. Harmony. Connection.
The gathering of Israel is a beautiful sentiment, and it points to the proper way – gathering, uniting, and harmonizing of families and communities. To see the fruition of so grand a dream, we need a reorganizing of core beliefs, a focus on family, unified power.
Gather Israel. Build Zion. Return the Earth and mankind to a paradisiacal state. Begin with yourself. Change your mind… Change your thoughts, and let harmony resound from you… teach others. Treat others well and fairly… Build a mighty family!
Look how we are tricked to be alone; tricked into weakness and vulnerability; tricked into pouring money to our oppressors but not to eachother; to our family; shamed for having many children; women mocked for being great mothers of many children. The virgin only is valued and the mother and crone discarded. The grandfathers are mocked, the great uncles not even known. We have been tricked! We are deceived.
Gather Israel. Build Zion. Return the Earth and Mankind to Paradise.
It starts with you, the nuclear family, the tribe, the nation.